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The Guest Down the Hall

Read an original three-scene play about a school radio show and explain how each scene builds on the last to form the whole story.

Grade 5ELAInteractive · Printable

Aligned toRL.5.5

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  • Single worksheet
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  • 1 Common Core standard
  • Printable answer key
  • 11 questions
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Details

Format
Interactive · Printable
Grade
Grade 5
Subject
ELA
Question types
Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Matching, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

About this worksheet

What students practice

  • Students explain what each scene of a play adds to the whole story.
  • Students describe how early scenes set up events in later scenes.

How to use

Assign parts and read the play aloud as a group, then have students answer the questions on their own, looking back at each scene as needed.

Curriculum

Common Core standard covered

RL.5.5

Explain how a series of chapters, scenes, or stanzas fits together to give a story, drama, or poem its overall structure.

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The Guest Down the Hall

See how three scenes fit together to build a whole play.

Read the play

Read the play. Notice what happens in each scene and how the scenes connect.

The Guest Down the Hall: A Play in Three Scenes
Cast of characters: KENJI, host of the school's morning radio show; ABENA, the show's producer; MR. CASTILLO, the school custodian; three fourth graders in the Bucket Band

Scene 1: Monday Morning, the Radio Room

(The school's radio room is no bigger than a closet. Two microphones sit on a desk covered in sticky notes. MR. CASTILLO kneels by the radiator, tapping a pipe with his wrench in a quick, bouncing rhythm. KENJI hangs up the phone and slumps into his chair.)

KENJI: That was Mrs. Delgado. She has the flu, so she can't come on Friday.

ABENA: But she's our special guest! We've been telling the whole school about her storytelling for two weeks.

KENJI: The Friday show is supposed to be our best one of the year. We need someone special, someone nobody has ever heard before.

ABENA: (flipping through her clipboard) We have four days. We'll find somebody.

(MR. CASTILLO ends his rhythm with two sharp taps, gathers his tools, and slips out the door. Neither KENJI nor ABENA looks up.)

Scene 2: Wednesday Afternoon, the Hallway

(The hallway is empty after school. ABENA and KENJI walk slowly. ABENA crosses names off a list.)

ABENA: The principal is busy. The chorus is on a field trip. The science teacher said, "Maybe next year."

KENJI: Then let's just play old recordings on Friday. Nobody will notice.

ABENA: Everyone will notice! (She stops.) Wait. Do you hear that?

(From around the corner comes a booming, clattering beat. MR. CASTILLO is drumming on three upside-down buckets with two mop handles.)

KENJI: (whispering) That's the rhythm he was tapping on Monday!

ABENA: Mr. Castillo, would you be our guest on Friday's show?

MR. CASTILLO: (lowering the mops) Me? On the radio? I haven't played for an audience in thirty years.

KENJI: Please. You're exactly what we've been looking for.

MR. CASTILLO: (after a long pause) All right. But only if some students drum with me.

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